Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque

by Edgar Allan Poe

Overview

Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque is a collection of previously-published short stories by Edgar Allan Poe, first published in 1840. Edgar Allan Poe was an American writer, editor, and literary critic. Poe is best known for his poetry and short stories, particularly his tales of mystery and the macabre. He is widely regarded as a central figure of Romanticism in the United States and of American literature as a whole, and he was one of the country's earliest practitioners of the short story. He is generally considered the inventor of the detective fiction genre and is further credited with contributing to the emerging genre of science fiction. He was the first well-known American writer to earn a living through writing alone, resulting in a financially difficult life and career.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9782291073239
Publisher:	MVP
Publication date:	07/01/2019
Sold by:	Bookwire
Format:	eBook
Pages:	150
File size:	379 KB

About the Author

Edgar Allan Poe was an American poet, short story writer, playwright, editor, critic, essayist and one of the leaders of the American Romantic Movement. Best known for his tales of the macabre and mystery, Poe was one of the early American practitioners of the short story and a progenitor of detective fiction and crime fiction. He is also credited with contributing to the emergent science fiction genre.Poe died at the age of 40. The cause of his death is undetermined and has been attributed to alcohol, drugs, cholera, rabies, suicide (although likely to be mistaken with his suicide attempt in the previous year), tuberculosis, heart disease, brain congestion and other agents.

Other Books of Author:
• The Tell-Tale Heart (1843)
• The Raven (1845)
• The Fall of the House of Usher (1839)
• The Murders in the Rue Morgue (1841)
• The Pit and the Pendulum (1842)
• Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque (1840)
• The Cask of Amontillado (1846)
• The Masque of the Red Death (1842)
• The Purloined Letter (1844)
• A Descent into the Maelström (1841)

Table of Contents

About Author:

Preface

Part 1

Morella

Lionizing

William Wilson

The Man That Was Used Up

The Fall of the House of Usher

The Duc de L'Omelette

MS. Found in a Bottle

Bon-Bon

Shadow

The Devil in the Belfry

Ligeia

King Pest

How to Write a Blackwood Article

A Predicament

Part 2

Four Beasts in One

Silence

The Unparalleled Adventure of One Hans Pfaall

A Tale of Jerusalem

Von Jung

Loss of Breath

Metzengerstein

Berenice

Why the Little Frenchman Wears His Hand in a Sling

The Conversation of Eiros and Charmion

Personal Opinions

Editorial Opinions

Editorial Reviews

The epithets "Grotesque" and "Arabesque" will be found to indicate with sufficient precision the prevalent tenor of the tales here published. But from the fact that, during a period of some two or three years, I have written five-and-twenty short stories whose general character may be so briefly defined, it cannot be fairly inferred — at all events it is not truly inferred — that I have, for this species of writing, any inordinate, or indeed any peculiar taste or prepossession. I may have written with an eye to this republication in volume form, and may, therefore, have desired to preserve, as far as a certain point, a certain unity of design. This is, indeed, the fact; and it may even happen that, in this manner, I shall never compose anything again.

E. Allan Poe (Author)

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